The EU Commission is about to debate proposals that would force corporate boards to reserve 40% of their seats for women (click here for the story). Earlier this month, I posted about a new study which found that gender diversity is good for corporate performance. This study implies that it is in a company's interest to have women on boards and that quotas are unnecessary. Nevertheless, quotas are becoming increasingly common in the EU.
According to Robert Shiller , speaking at Davos, Bitcoin is a perfect example of a bubble - story here . Shiller sees Bitcoin as a backwards step in the evolution of money. George Selgin , a free banker, takes an opposing view - click here . Although he doesn't believe that Bitcoin is money, he sees its development as a fascinating turn in the evolution of money. In particular, he lauds the fact that Bitcoin production is constrained and cannot be infinite. There is a short video below where Bitcoin explain how it works.